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The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
No good Southern writing is complete without a dead mule. Established 1996. New issues on the 15th of every month.
The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
No good Southern writing is complete without a dead mule. Established 1996. New issues on the 15th of every month.
Fiction

Jacob Stump :: What Lives Up Mud Creek Holler ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised on the...
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Fiction

Grady VanWright :: The Wormhole Killers ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Grady VanWright was born and raised in...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Gina Ferrara :: The Telling Hour ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: New Orleans, the South’s brattiest city is...
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Poetry

Tom Hunley :: Five Incredible Prose Poems ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Tom C. Hunley has lived and worked...
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Fiction

Harry James :: Orlan Feal ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was a soldier once, born south...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Tobi Brun :: Twenty-Three ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Tobi Brun lives in Dayton, Ohio, in...
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Flash Fiction

Alexandria Behm :: By the Bay ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: All my writing seems to make a...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Anna Booraem :: Instincts ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My family moved back to South Carolina...
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Fiction

W Joe Taylor :: The Bared Bear ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Yep, even though I was born in...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Janie Borisov :: Don’t Laugh at Me, Argentina ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My latitudes and longitudes may not exactly...
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Fiction

Deborah Wilbrink :: The Proposal and the Purse ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Atlanta, and birthed...
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The River of Strange

Thirty Years Online 2026. Ya’ll… seriously. Whoa Nellie.

The Dead Mule School of Southern Living celebrates 30 years...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Laurie Lewis :: Knowing Awe ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I spent my early childhood in Washington,...
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Flash Fiction

Nina Barufaldi :: Where the Armadillo Fades ::

SOUTHERN LEGITIMACY STATMENT: Nina Barufaldi was born in the armpit...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Sarah Hardy :: My Grandmother’s Skin ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in the South and...
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Flash Fiction

Aaron Renfro :: Clozapine ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Grew up in rural Texas climbing barbed...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Asunta Ross :: On the Deer Carcass I Saw in 2015 ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born on the West Coast...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Miles Price :: The Southern Vibe ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’m as southern as can get, My...
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Fiction

Michael Gray :: The Floor ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in southwest Kentucky near...
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